This is an analysis of Happyheart by Edward William Thomson.
AMID a waste of worn-out apple trees,
In doorless ruin, nigh a grass-grown road…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcd e XXf aX cc gXX a he hg dbec f Xaefc Xidhd cXi
- Stanza lengths: 4,1,3,2,2,3,1,2,2,4,1,5,5,3,
- Metre: 0101011101 0101010111 11010010001 1101110011 1101011111 1011011101 1111011000 0101011101 1101010101 1101110101 1001010101 1111110101 1100010111 010010100001 1101101000 1101000101 0100010101 1101101100 1011011111 01010100101 0101010101 0101010101 11010101001 1001010111 1101100101 1111000111 11101010000 10101010111 1101011100 1101011111 0101000101 1100100111 1001010101 0111011100 1111010101 1101010101 10111100101 1001110100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 41
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